It is very possible to be proud of the spiritual gifts God has entrusted to us and to strut about ostentatiously, forgetting that we have nothing which we have not received, that grace is a gift, an undeserved favor. We can actually be filled with pride at the eloquence and brilliance of our sermon on humility.

True leaders must be willing to suffer for the sake of objectives great enough to demand their wholehearted obedience.

Spiritual leadership is the power to change the atmosphere by one's presence, the unconscious influence that makes Christ and spiritual things real to others.

The man of leadership caliber will work while others waste time, study while others sleep, pray while others play. There will be no place for loose or lazy habits in word or thought, deed or dress. He will observe a soldierly discipline, diet and deportment, so that he may wage a good warfare.

We are not responsible for our endowments or natural abilities, but we are responsible for the strategic use of time.

If you would rather pick a fight than solve a problem, do not consider leading the church

When God lays a burden on our hearts and thus keeps us praying, He obviously intends to grant the answer.